A virtual ledger that serves as the foundation for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is attracting increased attention and funding dollars from large energy companies and the U.S. government, who are ...

Governments and environmentalists are quick to criticize the amount of electricity Bitcoin mining uses, but investors’ growing interest in crypto is leading to positive steps in the energy sector. The ...

Ever since 2020, things have been different. The COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing lockdowns changed things in ways that were ...

Blockchain's role in cybersecurity continues to expand as organizations seek reliable ways to secure data, verify identities, ...

The flurry of blockchain applications and use cases that have burst into the marketplace during 2020 and 2021, from decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and non-fungible ...

Decentralized networks are becoming commonplace on today's technical landscape, as enterprises seek to write custom applications that solve business problems. Increasingly these are based on smart ...

In today’s digital world, the demand for secure, transparent, and efficient agreements is more pressing than ever. Enter smart contracts—self-executing agreements that are changing industries face, ...

A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions that is replicated and distributed across a large network of computer systems, or nodes, to record and secure information. Each block in the blockchain ...